From HR Buzzwords to Must Have Recruiting Strategies

Kristina Martic | 10/18/2017 | HR Trends

Recruiting strategies today are much different than they used to be few years back. As a consequence, there new terms, strategies and technologies have emerged. Some HR professionals believe these just buzzwords. Others, however believe that these are must-have recruiting strategies.

List of must-have recruiting strategies

If you are an HR specialist, you should always stay up to date with new recruiting strategies. We have made the list of our favorite innovative recruiting strategies.

Recruiting strategy #1: Recruitment Marketing

Recruitment Marketing methods are used for communicating organization's Employer Brand and Employee Value Proposition to attract and hire top talent.

Recruiting strategy #3: Candidate Relationship Management

Candidate relationship management (CRM) is a recruiting strategy for managing and improving relationships with current and potential future job candidates. CRM technology is used to automate and ease communication process with the job seekers, encourage their engagement and improve candidate experience.

Recruiting strategy #4: Employer Branding

In today’s “War for Talent” Employer Branding strategies are considered very important when it comes to solving one of the biggest recruiting challenges – attracting high-quality applicants.

Research by LinkedIn has proven that more than 75% of job seekers research about firm’s reputation and employer brand before they apply for an open position. Companies that have a bad reputation not only have problems in attracting candidates, but also retaining employees.

Data-driven recruiting strategy has proven to improve some of the most important hiring metrics such as time to hire, cost to hire and quality of hire.

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Question

If you had data available that proves that referred candidates take shortest to hire, fastest to on-board, require least money and stay longest with your company, would you still waste your money on job boards and job promotions or would you improve your Employee Referral Program?